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Resources for policy-oriented
epidemiology. Many books have appeared, although the only current one dealing
specifically with policy is my own (I believe that another is in progress). Several older
ones are now out of print, perhaps because they were entirely descriptive, with no
presentation of methods (the books lose interest when the case studies are no longer
topical). Brownson and Petitti's excellent Applied Epidemiology: theory to practice
is relevant throughout, and its closing chapter is entirely on epidemiology and health
policy. Kue Young's Population Health: concepts and methods combines epidemiology
with behavioural science, while Petitti's Meta-Analysis, Decision Analysis, and
Cost-effectiveness Analysis also contains much relevant material. Gray's Evidence-based
Healthcare is excellent for adapting the methods of clinical epidemiology, although it
focuses on health care policy rather than health policy in general. |